Wild Sounds: Voice of the Sea Ice
Wild Sounds: Voice of the Sea Ice
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Step out onto a frozen landscape with New Zealand researchers investigating the future of Antarctica.
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The series delves into topics related to Antarctic exploration, climate change, and scientific innovation. Episodes spotlight significant themes such as mapping safe routes across ice shelves, investigating methane seeps, and understanding the ecology of Antarctic sea ice, with specific episodes featuring researchers like Dr. Daniel Price and ongoing projects addressing environmental changes.
The Kākāpō Files podcast is back with what’s set to be the biggest breeding season of all time for the world’s favourite parrot.
The number of kākāpō chicks has climbed to 54, with plenty more fertile eggs still to hatch on Whenua Hou and Pukenui/Anchor Island. Remote monitoring technology shows that seven kākāpō mums on Te Kakahu/Chalky Island are likely raising chicks as well. DOC’s Kākāpō Recovery Programme is using a genetic ranking system to prioritise how much management attention each chick receives – Kākāpō Cam star Rakiura, for instance, is foster mum to a silver chick and also a gold chick. The oldest chick, Tiwhiri-A1, is ranked gold and a ground-breaking new portable PCR that allows rapid sex-testing of chicks on the islands has shown that he is a male.
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In this episode:
00:00 – Introduction
01:00 – Maddy Whittaker with egg and chick updates
03:50 – Males are stopping booming
08:00 – Rimu fruit ripening
08:40 – Chick and hatching deaths
09:30 – Updates on Alison, Queenie & Cyndy, & Tiwhiri-A1
14:46 – Andrew Digby on genetic ranking system for chicks
21:20 – Sex-testing chicks using PCR
25:25 – Alyssa Salton with kākāpō egg 101
29:58 – Closing credits…
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